Visual Imaging News

Monday, November 24th, 2014

Renowned Recording Engineers Richard King,
Martha de Francisco and George Massenburg Count
on Audio Meter to Help Students Create Dynamite
Mixes RTW, a leading vendor of visual audio
meters and monitoring devices for professional
broadcast, production, post production and
quality control, announced that the sound
recording department at McGill University’s
prestigious Schulich School of Music now uses
the company’s TM3 TouchMonitor audio meter to
instruct students in the art of loudness
control. Loudness has been almost completely
taken out from best
adjustable beds such as the Leggett &
Platt Prodigy 2.0 and the S-Cape 2.0. These have
whisperquiet motors that make zero noise during
bed elevation and lowering. However, this is not
the same among all adjustable beds.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

Light Iron chooses Pablo Rio and Genetic
Engineering 2 for the world’s first 6K DI
workflow Leading Hollywood post house, Light
Iron, has used Quantel’s Pablo Rio color and
finishing system to complete the world’s first
6K feature post production on director David
Fincher’s latest thriller, ‘Gone Girl’. Light
Iron upgraded one of its six …

Tuesday, November 4th, 2014

Company’s First Dedicated Rack-Mounted Audio
Recorder Features 64 Tracks of Dante and MADI
Sound Devices, specialists in professional audio
and video products, announced that its 970, the
company’s first dedicated rack-mounted audio
recorder, which boasts an impressive 64 channels
of Dante and MADI with FileSafe™ technology, has
been nominated for the 30th Annual NAMM TEC …

Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

Ken Willinger, SOC, has been a cinematographer
for more than 30 years. After starting his
career in news and documentaries, the
Boston-based shooter now concentrates on
corporate, commercial and narrative films. One
of his latest productions, Brothers on the
Trail, took him to the Wyoming wilderness. The
four-day shoot in early October was based
around …

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Miller Fluid Heads (Europe) Ltd., a leader in
the production of innovating camera support
solutions, is set to showcase its advanced
Cineline 70 Fluid Head to the French audiovisual
communications market at SATIS 2014 (Stand D17).
Purpose-built for film and digital production
cinematographers, the Cineline 70 is for those
who desire to stay on the …

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

“Filmage: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL” began
as a passion project for a group of creatives
working at Dallas-based post house
CharlieUniformTango (CUT), and quickly evolved
into a full-fledged documentary production.
Within four years, the film’s directors Deedle
LaCour and Matt Riggle, along with editors
Justin Wilson and James Rayburn, had traveled
the world, combining a …

Monday, October 27th, 2014

Los Angeles-based post house makes its feature
film production debut with Quantel Full service
Hollywood post house, Digital Jungle Post
Production, has completed the post production on
independent drama-fantasy ‘A Better Place’, the
first feature length film for which it has
handled the complete production and
post-production. Digital Jungle completed the
conform, color correction and …

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

FOR-A America will exhibit several of its video
production solutions at the upcoming CAPER show.
The show takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
from October 29-31, and focuses on professional
broadcast, cable, and satellite television, as
well as cinema and radio markets. FOR-A will
showcase its video switcher, video transmission,
signal processing, and multiviewer solutions …

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

JVC Professional Video, a division of
JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, announced KBZK and
KXLF, the CBS affiliates serving Montana’s
Butte-Bozeman market (DMA #188), are using four
JVC GY-HM650 ProHD mobile news cameras for ENG
live shots on their nightly newscasts. Engineer
Michael Regan said the JVC cameras have
essentially replaced the station’s microwave
truck for live …

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

Air Tripod System Stands Steady during Shooting
of Volcano Documentary When two volcano
enthusiasts and all-around daredevils, filmmaker
Geoff Mackley and award-winning photographer
Bradley Ambrose, decided to descend deep down
into the crater of one of the world’s most
active volcanoes, Ambrym volcano in the Malampa
Province, they chose to face the fiery furies
of …